China

The course is comprised of a research-based curriculum designed to introduce the latest academic research achievements of women's studies, gender studies, and women's history. The course focuses on the theoretical framework and research methods and encourages an understanding of the relationship between knowledge production and historical and cultural background.

The course introduces the basic theories and methods of stochastic analysis and its application in Finance. It discusses how to apply the basic theories and methods in stochastic analysis to financial pricing and derives the famous Black-Scholes formula. Other topics include Brownian motion, stochastic integral, and Ito formula. This course is taught in both English and Chinese.

The course studies the basic theory of stochastic processes and research methods through and economics and management perspective. Topics include financial engineering theory, conditional mathematical expectation, martingale, Poisson process, update process, Markov chain, Brownian motion, stochastic integral, and stochastic financial model.

The basic content of the course includes complex planes and extended complex planes, Cauchy-Riemann equations and holomorphic functions, fractional linear transformations and basic elementary functions, single-valued branches of complex integrals and multivalued functions, Cauchy integral theory, power series and Laurent levels Number, isolated singularity and residue theorem, biholomorphic mapping and Riemann mapping theorem, preliminary analysis and extension, etc.

This course provides a political economy perspective on the rapidly changing economy and society in contemporary China. The course focuses on the discussion how political, economic, and social forces shape socialism with Chinese characteristics. Lecture topics include the lexicon of China's political economy, population and China's power, the significance of administrative jurisdiction economy, transformation of economic development models, mobility system and citizenship, political economy concerns of urbanization, government finance and the case of infrastructure financing, inequality under welfare regime transformation, and how we understand the real China. Basic readings: Janos Kornai, THE SOCIALIST SYSTEM: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNISM; Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins, eds., THE GEOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA: THE IMPACT OF DENG XIAOPING'S DECADE; Barry Naughton, GROWING OUT OF THE PLAN: CHINESE ECONOMIC REFORM 1978-1993; John R. Logan, THE NEW CHINESE CITY: GLOBALIZATION AND MARKET REFORM. 

This course covers the basic theories and research methods of abnormal psychology. It examines the causes, course, coping strategies, and intervention methods of the main types of mental illnesses, as well as analyzes the diagnoses of major psychological diseases, the establishment of treatment guidelines, and intervention techniques.

Course topics include program planning; broadcast and television media; comparison of the characteristics of different media forms; current trends in China's radio and television industry; content-based audio-visual media planning; content-based audio-visual media planning practice; integration of business and humanities; and similarities and differences between entertainment and new programs.